Elizabeth Young, Making Mischief

Making Mischief

Elizabeth Young

Avon, Nov 2005, $12.95

ISBN: 0060784784

When London suburbanite Abby Morland was sixteen she visited her cousins in Brighton where she meets the teenage hunk Guy from next door, who has all her female relatives agog. Though she wants to be aloof she joins the club. When she sees him in a clinch with Cara, the best friend of her cousin Rachel, Abby causes a bit of mischief.

Now thirty-something, Abby has become the anchor of sanity for her extended family. She believes that she is the right one for Guy, but currently he is with Abby's cousin Fleur, whose mom fears history will repeat itself and will do anything to prevent what happened to her occurring to her daughter. Her sister (Abby's mom stole her boyfriend). However, Abby's chances to further her case seems slim until an incident at the Barbados wedding between her sibling and his pregnant girlfriend gives her the opportunity though she fears rejection.

The key to this fine chick lit romance is not the changing relationship between Guy and Abby, but instead her role as the intermediary between family members. In that function, readers obtain a close up look at the responsible, nurturing and champion strategist Abby; thus Guy never makes it past centerfold status. Still Abby carries the story line as she tries the Herculean tasks of making everything right for everyone including herself.

Harriet Klausner